writing

Books

Oliver, C. (2024) What is veganism for? Bristol University Press

Oliver, C. (2021) Veganism, Archives and Animals: Beyond-human geographies. Routledge.

Journal Articles, peer-reviewed

Oliver, C. (2025) Dancing with foxes: More-than-human design in ‘the chicken city’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50:2, 1-15

Oliver, C. (2025) Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production. Social Studies of Science. 55:1, 85-108

Oliver, C. (2025) ‘The birds of the Bay’: Avian landscapes of Morecambe Bay. Landscape Research. 50:5, 817-832.

Oliver C. and Sutton, Z. (2025) Do Species Meet? Antagonizing Interspecies Relationality Through Textual “Encounters”, Society and Animals, 33:4, 432-436

Searle, A., Turnbull, J. and Oliver, C. (2024) Climate Cattle: Metabolic Intervention in the Good Anthropocene. Environmental Humanities. 16:3, 784-806

Oliver, C. and Dickinson, H. (2024) Byproductive limits and bits of animal life. The Scottish Geographical Journal. 140:3-4, 490-507

Oliver, C. (2024) Archives beyond the Human. Cultural Politics. 20:2, 277-288

Drummond, M., Oliver, C., Palmer, J. and Giraud, E.H. (2024) Unfamiliar archives: a roundtable on estrangement, secrets, and loss. Cultural Politics, 20(2), pp.325-336.

Oliver, C., Turnbull, J and Richardson, M. (2024) Claiming Veganism & Vegan Geographies, The Geographical Journal

Oliver, C. and Bates, L. (2023) John Madin is Haunting Birmingham, Lo Squaderno

Oliver, C. (2022) Transforming paradise: Neoliberal regeneration and more-than-human urbanism in Birmingham. Urban Studies.

Oliver, C. (2022) Significant Nothingness in Geographical Fieldwork. GeoForum.

Oliver, C. and Morris, A (2022) Resisting academic circle jerks: Friendship as Resistance to the Neoliberal University at Academic Conferences, British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Bates, L. and Oliver, C. (2022) A Fable for the End of the World. you are here: journal of creative geography.

Oliver, C (2022) The Opposite of Extinction. Environment and History.

Oliver, C. (2022). Rising with the Rooster: How urban chickens are relaxing the pace of life. The Sociological Review Magazine.

Lantto, M., Marr, N., Larsen, M., Oliver, C., Mason, O., Brice, S., Judith, L., Thomas, S. and Phoenix, J. (2022) Sharing the field: reflections of more-than-human field/work encounters. Geohumanities.

Oliver, C. (2021) Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: resisting veganism’s myth of the individualist activist, Social Movement Studies

Oliver, C. (2021) Vegan world-making in meat-centric society: the embodied geographies of veganism, Social and Cultural Geography

Oliver, C. (2021) Returning to “The Good Life?” Chickens and Chicken-keeping during Covid-19 in Britain, Animal Studies Journal

Oliver, C. (2021) Beyond-human ethics: The animal question in institutional ethical reviews. Area

Oliver, C. (2020) Beyond-human research: Negotiating silence, anger & failure in multispecies research, Emotion, Space and Society

Oliver, C. and Morris, A. (2019) (dis-)Belonging Bodies: Negotiating Outsider-ness and Embodied Surveillance at Academic Conference, Gender, Place and Culture

Oliver, C., Leader, S. and Kettridge, N. (2018) Birmingham Bog outdoor laboratory: potentials and possibilities for embedding field-based teaching within the undergraduate classroom; Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Book Chapters

Oliver, C. (forthcoming, 2026) Animals in the Age of Acceleration. Cultural History of the Environment, Bloomsbury.

Oliver C. (2025) The Chicken City: Urban interspecies sociabilities, eds: Zoei Sutton and Josephine Browne, Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises, Routledge

Oliver, C. (2025) Our Chicken Life: Byproductive labour in the digital flock. Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worldseds. Turnbull, J; Searle, A; Giraud, E and Anderson-Elliot, H, Manchester University Press

Oliver, C. (2024) Unfulfilled Resistance: The Labor of Not Surviving, Building Multispecies Resistance against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights.Peter Lang

Oliver, C. (2024) A conduit for value? More-than-human experiments with metabolism. ed. Latva, O, Animal Industries: Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals since 1860,DeGruyter

Oliver, C. (2023) Resisting beyond the human: the potentialities and possibilities of friendship in (un)making the world, ed: Sarah Hughes, Critical Geographies of Resistance.Edward Elgar Publishing

Oliver, C. (2022) Animal-Beings, Animal-Things: reconstructing (archival) animal-bodies, eds. Springer, White, Veron, Hodge, and Yarayanan, Vegan Geographies: Ethics Beyond Violence, Lantern Books

Academic Guest Posts

Oliver, C. (2021) Finding Animals in the Royal Geographical Society’s Archives. Wiley Digital Archives.

Oliver, C. (2021) Eating Chickens, Consuming Cities: Urban Metabolism in Animal Studies. The Animal Turn.

Oliver C. (2021) OurChickenLife: Byproductive labour in the digital flock. Digital Ecologies.

Oliver, C. (2021) Post-pandemic conferences: Academic networks and changing conference spaces. Post-Pandemic University Magazine.

Oliver, C. and Turnbull, J. (2021) A conduit for value: more-than-human experiments with chicken metabolisms. CRASSH: Rescaling the Metabolic

Turnbull, J. and Oliver, C. (2021) Metabolic ruminations with climate cattle: Towards a more-than-human metabo-politics. CRASSH: Rescaling the Metabolic

Oliver, C. (2020) SARS-CoV-2, ricerca “più-che-umana” e riproduzione della violenza interspecie [Covid-19, ‘more-than-human’ research, and the reproduction of interspecies violence], trans. Federica Timeto, Liberazioni, n. 42, 84-87

Oliver, C. (2020) A welcoming and warning from a postdoctoral researcher: Prioritising radical dependence, reciprocity and rest in the PhD. Royal Geographical Society: Postgraduate Forum

Oliver, C. (2020) Online conferences: opening opportunities or reproducing inequality? LSE Gender Blog: Engenderings [reposted on Geography Directions]

Oliver, C. (2020) Covid-19, ‘more-than-human’ research, and the reproduction of interspecies violence. Animals in Society: Animal Studies Scholar Advocacy

Oliver, C. (2020) Re-homing hens during Covid-19: A rethinking of urban space?, Sociology Lens

Oliver, C. (2019) Archiving activism: The animal guide, The British Library Social Science Blog

Oliver, C. and Emmerson, P. (2016) How Critical is Research Impact? Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

Book Reviews

Oliver, C. (2023) Killer Cities, Nigel Thrift, AAG Review of Books, https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2023.2240966

Oliver, C. (2022) COMPLAINT! Sara Ahmed, Gender, Place and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2148961

Oliver, C. (2022) Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, Gina G Warren, H-Net Reviews, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56658.

Oliver, C. (2021) ‘Boundaries and Histories in Nonhuman Animal Activism,’ a review of Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits, Corey Lee Wrenn, Society and Animals, https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10039

Oliver, C. (2021) The Machine and its Discontents: A Fredy Perlman Anthology, Fredy Perlman, Anarchist Studies. 29, 116-117. DOI: 10.3898/AS29.1.REV.01

Oliver, C. (2019) Carceral Space, Prisoners, and Animals, Karen Morin, Social and Cultural Geography, 20:1, 129-131, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1522441